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Spectrum LSF

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Precise( by exect year/day/hour) Timespan field in RTM Daily Statictics

In RTM->Grid->Reports->Daily Statistics page for time interval only drop down menu available with options 1Day, 2Days .. 1Week ...1 YearIt's not convenient because the common requirement to generate reports are from year/month/day X to ye...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Change report time in RTM Reports->Daily Statistics

I would be more useful and accurate to report Total W Time on RTM Grid->Reports->Daily Statistics page in hours or minutes, not in weeks(wk).Because current report in weeks and it's not clear how the W time is rounded to week. The delta is 3...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

A way to disable or control who can use bswitch

Looking for a way to disable the use of bswitch or control who can use it. An idea would be to have an ESUB variable for it like with bmod (LSB_SUB_MODIFY=Y)
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Delivered

long-running daemons and cgroups

Vendor daemons are preventing us from implementing cgroups for process accounting. We would like to implement cgroups for process accounting in our LSFcluster to resolve a long standing issue of processes escaping fromLSF control. We have several ...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

many jobs pend due to "Just started a job recently".

1. the candidate hosts are sorted by CPU load; 2. do not dispatch jobs in a "pack" fashion, instead, "balance" fashion.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

lsrun vs bsub difference

We notice that user home-dir is different for lsrun vs bsub command. While using lsrun, it tries to look for user's unix home-dir, which is not available as expected. User would like to see same behavior via lsrun . Pls suggest how to achieve that,
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

[more info] Split LSF_TMPDIR into 2 different parameters: job's TMPDIR and LSF daemons' working directory

Have 2 different parameters to specify:1) Job's temporary directory TMPDIR2) LSF daemons' working directory where they core dump in case of fail, or sbatchd creates the .XXX.fanout and the .XXX.sbd directories. At the moment, both aspects are affe...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered

Support resizable jobs for compound resource requests (RES_REQ) using blaunch (parallel jobs)

A job that has compound resources cannot be resized - why?=============================================== We use blaunch to launch jobs with the following resource requirements. Begin ApplicationNAME = core8DESCRIPTION = applications that need 1 H...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

badmin mbdrestart -p customization

Hello, By default, badmin mbdrestart is restarting the whole mbatchd daemon. But most of the time, we need badmin mbdrestart -p. Is it possible to set a parameter that can change this behaviour ? For example, it's more practical to launch badmin m...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Jsub command delete previous existing trigerring events

Customer user accounts will be migrated from LDAP to AD and some users accounts name will be changed ( around 50 users affected) the customer was able to create a script that will extract the flow definitions of the concerned users and submit on b...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered